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The University of Adelaide Australia

Printing Quota

Printing quotas are only used for Undergraduate, Honours and Postgraduate coursework students.  Print quotas for staff, visitors and Postgraduate research students are managed by their business areas.  

University funded quota

Print quota information for students 
Applicable period for quota

There are 2 printing quota periods per year:
-  1st January to 30th June, and
- 1st July to 31st December.

University funded Quota

The University provides $36 of printing credit for each quota period.  Unused University funded quota is not carried forward.

Printing costs per page

Black & White A4  Single-sided - 6 cents

Black & White A4 Duplex  - 10 cents

Colour A4 Single-sided - 25 cents

Area funded quota Academic staff can request additional quota for individual courses. Areas are charged for actual use at the end of each period. Unused area funded quota is not carried forward. The rate for extra pages is set at $0.04 per A4 page for both undergraduate and post graduate course work students.
Warnings An email warning is sent to students when they have $10, $5, $0.05 remaining of their print quota

When students have exceeded their quota they will not be able to print until they have purchased additional self-funded quota from the Student Centre, or enrolled in the next printing period.
Quota carry over
At the end of each quota period university funded quotas are set to zero and a new quota is provided, however, self funded quotas remain with students permanently.  

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Purchasing extra self-funded print quota

Students can purchase self funded quota if they need more than is provided by the University or their area. The self funded quotas available for purchase are : $6, $10, $15, $20,$25, $30,$40, $50, $100. Self-funded quota can be purchased from;

  • North Terrace Campus - Student Centre, level 4, Wills Building
  • Waite Campus - Enquire in the WISA Office.
  • Roseworthy Campus - Front Office in the Main Building.

At the end of each printing period, unused self-funded quota is carried forward into the next printing period.
Funded quota will not be refunded upon Graduating or leaving the University.

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Monitoring print usage

Students can view their print usage from:

http://www.adelaide.edu.au/student/current/printing/